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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
President Bush continues to assess the catastrophic damage by air and on the ground in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Bush spent the day meeting with search and rescue personnel, relief commanders, and displaced residents in Mobile, Biloxi, and the New Orleans area. U.S. Congress passed a $10.5 billion relief package for the hurricane ravaged areas. First Lady Laura Bush issued a press statement from an evacuation shelter in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Patient and staff evacuations continue from numerous New Orleans Hospitals. Thousands of patients are being airlifted to a field hospital at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport for triage, staging, and transport to hospitals throughout the United States.
The U.S. Coast Guard and civilian volunteers continue to evacuate thousands of survivors from their flooded homes in New Orleans. The Army Corps of Engineers continues work to repair the damaged levees.
The nation's airlines today began an operation intended to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans. The airlines are volunteering their aircraft and crews for the program. Long convoys loaded with relief supplies arrived throughout the day into New Orleans, while convoys of buses are moving survivors out of the city.
Several large fires are burning in the city and greater New Orleans area. Reports indicate snipers are holding down firefighters. Reports of shots fired with LEO down in the St. Bernard Parish area. Rescue operations are underway. A bus carrying NOLA evauees rolled over in Opelousa, LA.
Links to various news, local and state government websites:
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends
2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.
NOLA.com
Inside Houma Today includes shelter and volunteer updates
WLBT.com Jackson MS
WALA Channel 4 Mobile, AL Includes links to distribution centers, Emergency Ops, etc.
Sun-Herald Gulfport MS Includes link to town by town reports
Gulfport News via Topix.net
WAFB Baton Rouge
Mobile Register via al.com
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser
Pensacola News Journal
St Bernard Local Government
Alabama Homeland Security Volunteers can sign up online
Alabama DOT
Alabama.gov
Louisiana Homeland Security
Louisiana State Police road closure info
State of Mississippi Website has traffic alerts, emergency contact numbers
Streaming Video:
New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002
WWL-TV New Orleans (via WFAA Dallas) - WWL-TV is operating from studios at Louisiana Public Broadcasting. CBS has a relay during the morning and afternoon. When available, use the CBS relay first as they have greater streaming capacity. Yahoo has also provided a relay.
WDSU-TV New Orleans - The news staff has started to return to temporary news studios near New Orleans. However, expect evening coverage from Hearst-Argyle sister stations WAPT Jackson and WESH Orlando when the New Orleans staff needs to take a break.
WGNO-TV New Orleans - New Orleans' ABC affiliate has returned to the air with WBRZ-TV and launched video streaming with continuous Katrina coverage.
WPMI-TV Mobile, AL - WPMI is webcasting from 5:30am - 10:30pm CDT. When off air, you can view pre-recorded reports on demand. This feed is often unreliable.
WKRG-TV Mobile, AL - This station is providing good coverage of the situation to the east in Mississippi and Alabama. However, the station is now signing off at around 10:30pm CDT like WWL and WPMI.
WJTV-TV Jackson, MS - The CBS affiliate in Jackson is providing live coverage for both the Jackson area and south Mississippi (knowing a lot of media in that area is off the air).
United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.
Related FR Threads:
FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread FReeper Check In thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
Looting Begins In New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread
Martial Law Declared in New Orleans
Due to the number of requests to assist, the following list of some charities is provided.
This is not intended as an endorsement for any of the charities.
www.redcross.org or 1-800 HELP NOW - note: website is slow, and lines are busy
Salvation Army - 1-800-SAL-ARMY or Salvation Army currently looking for in-state volunteers - (888)363-2769
Operation Blessing: (800) 436-6348.
America's Second Harvest: (800) 344-8070.
Catholic Charities USA: (800) 919-9338, or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: (800) 848-5818.
Church World Service: (800) 297-1516 or online at www.churchworldservice. org.
Lutheran Disaster Response: (800) 638-3522.
Nazarene Disaster Response: (888) 256-5886.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: (800) 872-3283.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is accepting donations at its 3,800 stores and Web site, www.walmart.com.
National Black Home Educators Resource Association http://www.nbhera.org/ Southern Baptist: NAMB - http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse - http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Katrina Live Thread, Part IX
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
As far as I know he is.
As for Kanye West, his statement is not uncharacteristic of him. He makes music and social commentary all the time.
It's only a shock to those who don't know anything about him.
No, but hysteria from the reporters can make it worse in the convention center.
And it still remains we can only do so much to rescue people. It's easy to sit here and say get it done, but that follows the assumption people aren't working as hard as possible to reach everyone.
The simple harsh truth is they chose to stay, the Governor and mayor were incompetant, and these are the consequences. We aren't superheros that can snap fingers and restore and rescue in seconds.
There are numerous reports that government agents forbid the motion. I think, in aggregate, the reports present credible evidence of that. Authorities are controlling the outflux. They are limiting personal initiative.
And when the system has that nature, bad things will happen - the authorities must believe that worse things will happen if they permit uncontrolled outflux.
With respect, I have to dasagree with your comments..Ehat we are seeing on the TV are small slices of activity on the scene...4999 people are rescued..evacuated to safety, whewre they are gettting good care and treatment, but ONE person dies 20 feet from where Shep happpens to be standing? So what story do we see over and ovr again..ad nauseum?
Excellent point
...and Geraldo said they've been there for 6 days. Not very credible.
what did Andrea Mitchell say?
Good news and bad news...I did add the Southern Baptists to this thread. However, I failed to insert a break, so the info is hanging way out there immediately following the National Black Home Educators Resource Association. mea culpa
Call me stupid. I click on the link and nothing happens other than a webpage comes up.
I got it. They're dying at the hands of Americans, too. Americans that do not care about their fellow man. Mere parasites. I've got it alright.
My nephew, the New Orleans policeman finally got a call out to his sister in Boston at 4:30 this morning. He said that he had been running all over the city chasing looters. One of his uncles my husband's sister's husband stayed in his uptown New Orleans house. As far as we know uptown New Orleans was not flooded but his phone stopped working a few days ago. My nephew has been told he is there and will check on him. I am not surprised at all that there are armed thugs rampaging through homes in the better neighborhoods. The better neighborhoods uptown are often only a few blocks away from really bad neighborhoods. Those who have been to New Orleans know this is true, unusual I guess, but the reality of New Orleans. I have not seen much reporting about what is going on in Uptown New Orleans, has anyone else? This is the University area and the area around Audubon Park.
Question my friend..Do you know whre the mayor and governor are located.are they in the city proper?
That was over the top. However, in this case, I can sympathize.
he doesn't have a dog in the fight. HE WAS around people who do. Who have NO where to go.
But go ahead and criticize. After all you are just another internet jackass on an internet forum and not actually there.
That gives you ALL THE RIGHT, RIGHT?
I think Geraldo must have found an abandoned meth lab after he got to NO. Please Fox - evacuate him and Shep and just set up a cam. I have had my tv on mute for the last 45 minutes. Think I will put some Ray Charles music on and see if I can get the cork out of a bottle of red wine. Staying with FR of course.
On the Huffington site. Is this guy a well known civil rights leader? Drudge describes him as a civil rights leader.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html
Shepard Smith is no saint. He admitted yesterday that he wouldn't give his water to the people who were starving because he needed it.
FNC needs to get rid of the drama queens and leave the reporting to the professionals like Steve Harrigan.
No good deed goes unpunished
Bastardi clearly stated "they did not dodge a bullet" and then he explained for the thousandth time that raising pressue by 4 mb and pulling to the east does not mean everyone should stay.
Hell, the entire thread on FR that morning would have put TWC to shame it was so scientific.
"When you reach this point, as you've described right now? Go for a walk. Go watch an engaging movie. Do a chore you've put off doing but which needs to be done.
Get those MSM and Lib-Dem stresses out of your body, and your mind. Come back, refreshed. Strengthened."
Thanks! ....great advice. I had a lot of things planned for today, and instead, I've been here reading all day and watching reports on TV...not good. Tomorrow's another day.....gettin' outta here. Have a good one!
That's it: they are in competition with each other.
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